Who am I?  and why should you care what I have to write about anything?

Because I am… (select as many as you like):

A.)  more outrageous than Frank

B.) wrestle in a higher weight class than Russell

C.) am more intellectual than Eben

D.) have recently been in the position of a newcomer to internet marketing and better understand the questions a newcomer has than would one of the immortals in the field.

Earlier this year, I finally had all I could stand of working in the corporate world.  I quit when my employer kept reneging on promises made to me while simultaneously demanding more and more of my time.

Over the past few weeks and months, I have spent a great deal of time and money researching the internet marketing game and trying to plot a path through which I could earn a good living while also telling the bad bosses of the evil corporate world that I was their monkey no more.

Now, before I go any further in that vein, I do want to take you further back into “who I am”.

I grew up in an area of what many refer to as “flyover country”… southern Indiana.

I received a scholarship to Indiana University.  I originally planned to study astrophysics.  However, I was talked into thinking that a business degree would be more marketable.  I received my Bachelors in Business Administration degree from I.U. in… let’s just say several years ago.

I always thought having a degree from what is usually considered to be one of the top ten business schools would be an assurance of success in the corporate business world.

How wrong I was.

Who you know…

Who you are related to…

How your looks rate…

How Tall you are…

Whether you play golf…

Sycophantism…

Luck…

All of these mattered more than my “excellent” degree.

Luck matters more than a degree.

The diploma may as well have been used for toilet paper.

All I wanted was to be hired and to advance in my career based on how well I could do the job under consideration.

So now it is a few (ok… many) years later.  I am determined to become an internet entrepreneur (an “interpreneur” as I have coined it elsewhere).

One other note about me:

Despite my early desires to be an astrophysicist, I was also an accomplished poet and guitar player.  I wrote one long 50 page poem called “Convergent Universe” that mirrors the universe in its structure.  In a way it is a non-mathematical statement of the unified field of the universe.  You can find it on one of my other web sites. www.hopeforman.com

Thanks for listening… to your success!

Tom

Fire your ungrateful, penny-pinching, money-grubbing boss…

even if he is actually a pretty decent guy.

Then, you can start your own business and BE the ungrateful, penny-pinching, money-grubbing BOSS!

I am kidding with that one…though there have certainly been many times I have thought to myself…

if I could just get rich and buy this company, I would love to be that guy’s boss for a while.  I would even pay him twice what he was worth so he couldn’t quit and would have to put up with my treatment of him.

Is it me or have bosses become more unbearable over the last ten to fifteen years?  Was there some hidden codicil in NAFTA or GATT that requires that anyone promoted in any company to a position that manages other employees, has to have graduated from the a-hole academy?

In the 20th century, I had bad bosses but I also had great ones.  Somehow the great ones seem not to have been y2k compliant.

As you have probably guessed by now, my experiences with bad bosses over the past decade are one large reason I have determined that I am going to become an interpreneur.  I coined that word as short for “internet entrepreneur”.

But there are many other reasons to become an interpreneur.

I value freedom in all of its forms.  The freedom to set one’s own schedule is certainly among them.

Make no mistake about it, there is a lot of work to be done, especially in the early stages of building your business.  But you have much greater control of when you do it.

Your nose is not introduced to someone else’s grindstone at a time when you would like to meet with the old friend who happens to be passing through your area.

You are able to meet that friend.

You are able to attend your son’s game or your daughter’s recital.

Youare able to attend the local premiere of the new Star Trek movie.

You are able to watch (or attend) the first world series appearance in over one hundred years by your favorite baseball team.

Bad bosses and the freedom to set your own schedule are just two of the many reasons to become an interpreneur.  I will enumerate more reasons in the future entries to this blog.

But next time, I will introduce you to me.  I will begin to tell you a little about my roots, my history, my dreams, my failures, my triumphs and my tragedies.

To your success!

Tom

Are you new to the internet marketing world?

Whether you are new or not, are you PERPLEXED by the complexity of it all?

I KNOW just how you feel. I was there myself. Over time, I found a system for determining how anyone could plot a path through this internet wonderland.

This blog is my gift to those of you who are still lost in the jungle. In this blog, I am going to help you to find your own way. You can’t just buy somebody’s system that worked for them and expect it to be the right system for you. It may be, but the odds of finding the right system for you by chance aren’t good.

You need to use the gray matter.

• You need a guide to help you:
• find the right niche for yourself.
• plot the steps for becoming a successful internet marketer in your chosen niche.
• find the right products that teach you the steps you need to learn in the way that you learn things the best.

Those are my intents with this blog… to help you plot your path… and to take the steps along that path to reach your goal.

Join me on this journey… won’t you?

May each successive tomorrow be your best day yet!

Tom